Manufacturing in America, Made in Colorado
Made by Colorado Manufacturers Like many areas in the US, the Colorado manufacturing scene has been scrambling to adjust to the ongoing movement of the pandemic and its aftershocks. Changes in demand, fluctuations in labor, and radical shifts in supply and...
Prophet 21 E-Commerce Integration Tips
E-Commerce is Drawing Interest from Epicor Prophet 21 Users Trend lines are never a function of simple math. As much as I’d like my world around me to conform to the simple y=mx+b along a clean Cartesian plane, the world around me thinks otherwise. Life, they say, is...
ROI of ERP: Software Money Games & Executive Moves
Once you calculate ROI (return on investment) of ERP software and determine that a new system will result in new profitability, the most important step appears: your software selection decision. But who should make this final and most important decision about the...
Views from Booth 25 – P21WWUG CONNECT 2021
Prophet 21 Trade Show Truths Dining and whining with the end users in the trenches of Prophet 21’s annual conference can elicit frank and poignant sentiments regarding the state of software and the state of the broader markets that it works to support. Listening to...
9 Questions to Answer at P21WWUG CONNECT
P21WWUG CONNECT - BOOTH 25 The 2021 Prophet 21 user conference (P21WWUG CONNECT) is less than a week away. For those of us in attendance, it is an exciting time for collaboration and discovery. User conferences are a great opportunity to trade ideas with other users...
Total Cost or Total Loss: New Software, New Budget
The cost of a software budget Software selection can be a lot like car shopping. You do a few test drives. You talk to happy drivers. You ask for the price and then ask for a better deal. You begin to investigate how much this new vehicle is going to cost. One part of...
When Your Value Stream Begins With Software
Stay in the Flow: Estimate Your Software Value Returns Businesses are supposed to earn a profit. New software can quickly lead to debt. Before you commit to a new software acquisition, know if your new possibilities will also be new expenses. If one of your customers...
Custom Cloud: Public Cloud Choices, SaaS Challenges
What to Do When ERP Turns SaaS I once sat in at a sales conference for an ERP vendor and listened as the CEO explained sales strategy as it related to their ongoing movement to the cloud. He described the situation as one of configurability vs. customizability. There...
Hosted or SaaS ERP? Understanding the Differences
In the world of enterprise resource planning (ERP), companies spend a lot of time on the software selection cycle. Determining which application will best fit the needs of the business also brings deployment model questions to the table. Currently, many manufacturers...
A Business Automation Nation – How AI Helps Us Connect
The 2020 shift to remote work forced small to medium companies to increase business automation. To quickly become touch-less and contactless, owners used technology solutions managed by third-party suppliers to guide the new network of online business communication,...